I had borrowed those from my gym. I don’t think I can get my hands on them anymore, but I have sent a text to the owner to ask if I can get one or two pair of dumbbells. Even if I could just get my hand on say, 10 kg and 18 kg dumbbells, together with the bands I have and the options for bodyweight work, I could make something work.
I have noticed John Meadows has put up a lot of YouTube videos on band workouts to do at home employing his techniques and all that, so maybe that’ll help me stay away from boredom.
I’m the same way. At home I listen to music because it just makes it not eerily quiet. At the commercial gym, I just walk around and workout. I think I’m the only human in the whole gym without ear buds or head phones on. I don’t get it.
There was a time when I thought the general unspoken rule of the forum was to warn off skinny people who have no muscle mass and no business taking gear, but it turns out for the most part people will just offer up advice without paying any attention to whom they’re offering it. It’s random, too - a 30 year old guy will get told to stay away, but a 20 year old guy gets the keys to the kingdom because he claims he doesn’t care if he dies young.
The girly man planning his girly cycle gave us a girly version of the imperial system of measurement that most of us don’t understand. What the fuck is a “stone”?
Let’s just say that, despite an enduring interest in getting stronger and (especially) bigger, I have never considered running it again. And by never I mean, not for a second have I entertained the idea.
I thought using stones AND pounds was a little wild. If yalls weird system is so much better than freedom units then why must he use both?
Since this is also a flame free confession…
I confess I don’t get using anything besides pounds. It’s so simple. I can tell someone I weigh 211 pounds and it’s a fairly accurate, precise measurement. If you wanted to do that with fancy weights it would be like 21.8654 stones or something wild. Are y’all really that good at math?
I do not understand how the United States can use a measurement system based on the length of the foot of another country’s dead king, and refer to it as “Freedom Units” in casual conversation. Especially given that metric is more accurate, easier math, free, and is not based on indirect worship of someone else’s dead monarch.
Scots would measure their bread by the weight of their testicles. Aye, Thoo Stooones a Bread lass they’d say. This would confuse the English no end but because they wanted lots of Scottish bread they came up with a strange conversation rate.
Scots were happy because that’s some big ass “stones”, English were happy with all that bread.
As an American (I am naturalized, but worked in the US from 1992 until recently), I can tell you that they do use it, and are thoroughly confused by any and all other systems. The speed limit is in mph, which is derived from Feet, acres of land are also thus derived, and all construction materials are referred to in Imperial measurements. And everyone gives their weight in pounds, een though no British currency is involved.
